“Dr. Drew is to medicine what David Blaine is to science” (Doug Stanhope)


Dr. DrewPart of the case made by U.S. prosecutors that led to GlaxoSmithKline’s $3 billion settlement today is that the company used a network of paid experts, speaking to doctors and to the press, to promote uses of its drugs that had not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. According to the Department of Justice’s complaint, one of those paid experts was celebrity physician Dr. Drew Pinsky, then the host of the radio show Loveline, which was also being broadcast on MTV. Pinsky has gone on to hostCelebrity Rehab, Dr. Drew on HLN, and Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers on the CW.

The government alleges that Pinsky was paid a total of $275,000 over just two months – March and April 1999 – to deliver messages about Wellbutrin SR, a Glaxo antidepressant, “in settings where it did not appear that Dr. Pinsky was speaking for GSK.”

read more at Forbes.com (external link)

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